To tell the truth

My heart is with you, family of the murdered teens. Yes, they were murdered, and I mourn with you. Recently I was rear-ended while on my bike by Cape May County Officials in their vehicle, who fled the scene. I lived, but have been disabled ever since. The police covered up evidence, threatened witnessed, and lied for each other, to beat the rap. I am alive but in constant pain. Your girls should be alive. Cape May County Police are to blame.

This is so heartbreaking and so beyond words. It just can't be forgotten by the media and our government.

This is HORRIBLE. I hope that our government can get these girls released. I am so sorry for their families and will keep all of them in my prayers.

They are paying a price for stupidity. Never should have been near the border in the first place.

If they are truly spies, why would the North Korean government want them inside their prison camps ??? So they can report on the horrific conditions inside these camps ??? They must believe they will not survive the twelve years.

This is not something that the US should be involved with: this is an internal matter within North Korea. The US should be working on the destruction of missiles not on two arrogant journalists who thought if they got caught nothing would happen to them or that the US would waste precious diplomat currency to get them released.

If you do not know where you are when you are investigating/filming a documentary on the North Korean border with China then, you should stay home and take care of kids and, leave journalism to real journalists, the ones that know where they are and to stay out of trouble when dealing with difficult countries like NK.
Now the US government at the highest level ill have to apologize on their behalf and hand over to this corrupt regime whatever it is they will want to release the two "broads". I feel for their family that have to put up with the anguish of their famiky..

We live in a different world now that has no borders, one where compassion and concern for humanity crosses political and geographic borders. These two girls are what is best about our generation: an unbiased, genuine, and sincere concern for truth.

I think that these girls should be returned back to US at all cost. Allowing two journalists, let alone two civilians, to be detained for longer than is reasonable and then stripped of their lives should be completely unacceptable. I feel that this should be made clear to North Korea as well as politicians in the US and the rest of the developed "free" world. The girls should be extracted whatever it takes – a military extraction if that is what it takes.

Freedom is not free and, while initially we can hope that some reason may develop in North Korea, if the process takes too long, I think we, as free people, should stand for our own.

Perhaps another benefit from all this may be that this whole affair will be another push to make people aware of the terrible conditions that some civilians are left to endure. Although perhaps it is a moot point... when there is so much suffering in the world and it is so easy for us to stick our heads in the sand, we have become grotesquely desensitized to other people's suffering. Perhaps these events may be a part of a changing tide.